The artwork features a close-up portrait of a woman's face against a dark background. The composition utilizes bold, contrasting colors, with the subject's skin tone rendered in a warm beige hue, while her hair and clothing are depicted in striking black and white stripes. The simplified, stylized features, including the piercing eyes, defined eyebrows, and vibrant red lips, give the portrait a striking, almost iconic quality, suggesting the artist's use of a modernist, minimalist approach. The overall artistic style and technique employed evoke a sense of emotional intensity and introspection, potentially reflecting the artist's intention to capture the essence of the subject's character or inner state. ...
Barbara Moura is an artist originally from Lisbon, Portugal. She graduated from the National Film School of Portugal and moved to London where she did her MA Applied Imagination in The Creative Industries at Central Saint Martins. She currently lives in Vienna. Her work alternates between oil painting and digital drawing and usually deals with themes such as feminism, sexuality, political criticism or emotional struggles, often personalized through self-portraits. ...
Founded in 2019 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris in a Haussmann-style setting, SEPTIEME opened its second space in September 2022 in Cotonou, Benin, in a 200m2 warehouse in the center of the city, to offer exhibitions in a new format to audiences in the West African sub-region. It made sense for SEPTIEME to deploy its vision spatially and to help push back the frontiers of contemporary art, as well as to contribute to the construction of new contemporary art strongholds. ...
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